The techniques listed in this document are not required for conformance to
the Guidelines. These techniques are not necessarily the only way of satisfying
the checkpoint, nor are they a definitive set of requirements for satisfying a
checkpoint.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of
this document series is maintained at the W3C.

This is the 12 September 2001 Working Draft of "Techniques for User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0". It is a draft document and may be updated,
replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to
use W3C Working Drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than
"work in progress". This is work in progress and does not imply endorsement by,
or the consensus of, either W3C or participants in the User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group (UAWG).

While User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 strives to be a stable
document (as a W3C Recommendation), the current document is expected to evolve
as technologies change and content developers discover more effective
techniques for designing accessible Web sites and pages.

Note: With a user agent that implements HTML 4
[HTML4] access keys, readers may navigate directly to the table of
contents via the "c" character. Users may have to use additional keyboard
strokes depending on their operating environment.

"Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" and the "User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [UAAG10] are part of a series of
accessibility guidelines published by the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI). These documents explain
the responsibilities of user agent developers in making the Web accessibility
to users with disabilities. The series also includes the "Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [WCAG10] (and techniques
[WCAG10-TECHS]), which explain the responsibilities of authors, and
the "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0"
[ATAG10] (and techniques
[ATAG10-TECHS]), which explain the responsibilities of authoring
tool developers.

The Web Accessibility Initiative
provides other resources and
educational materials to promote Web accessibility. Resources include
information about accessibility policies, links to translations of WAI
materials into languages other than English, information about specialized user
agents and other tools, accessibility training resources, and more.

In an effort to reduce the size of the current document, some information
that is in User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 has not been copied
here:

the introduction;

the descriptions of how the guidelines and checkpoints are structured and
organized;

the prose of each guideline (i.e., the text after the guideline title and
before the list of checkpoints);

the conformance section (since one does not conform to the current
document, only to User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0).

The current document includes more (implementation-related) references than the same section inUser
Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, and includes an additional section on resources that should help
implementors.